purpose: to investigate indications and methods of surgery in corneal transplantation in labbafinejad medical center from 2007 to 2009. methods: records of 1083 patients who had undergone corneal transplantation from 2007 to 2009 were reviewed. age, sex and indication and type of surgery were evaluated. results: patients included 709 (65.5%) male and 374 (34.5%) female subjects with mean age of...

background: in the present study the amount of requested blood products in major departments of imam reza medical center, kermanshah, iran has been studied to evaluate the necessity of these requests and also the amount of blood products wastage because of unnecessary requests. materials and methods: in the present study the information related to 4832 unit of requested blood products from iran...

Based on our previous work we propose to track multiple ground targets with GMTI (GroundMoving Target Indicator) sensors as well as with imagery sensors. The scope of this paper is to fuse the attribute type information given by heterogeneous sensors with DSmT (Dezert Smarandache Theory) and to introduce the type results in the tracking process to improve its performances.

Morphologic findings in human cardiac allografts from 13 patients are presented. In the acutely rejected cardiac allograft there was a cellular infiltrate consisting of large lymphocytes and varying numbers of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, eosinophils, and histiocytes in the myocardium and arterial intima. The coronary arteries frequently exhibited degeneration, acidophilia, and vacuolation of ...

cow’s milk allergy (cma) is the most frequent food allergy in children and oral immunotherapy (oit) is a promising approach for treatment of patients. the most challenging cases are anaphylactic with coexisting asthma and proposing safe protocols is crucial especially in high risk groups. considering that cma varies among patients, an individualized oit protocol would be beneficial to achieve a...

cytotoxic effects of obturation materials were tested in presence and absence of endotoxin on human monocytes in vitro.human monocytes from thp-1 cell line were cultured. three millimeters from the tip of each resilon and gutta percha points were cut and directly placed at the bottom of the culture wells. cultured cells were exposed to gutta percha (groups g1 and g2) and resilon (r1 and r2). te...

One of the characteristics of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is the large interand intra-individual variability of the clinical course. Lupus nephritis is no exception. Some patients with kidney involvement may show rapid progression to renal failure, while others may enter complete and stable remission after adequate therapy. More difficult to manage are the large number of patients who ha...

Current treatment options for allergic rhinitis (AR) include allergen avoidance and environmental control, pharmacotherapy, nasal surgery and immunotherapy. Among these, immunotherapy is the only therapeutic option that modifies fundamental immunologic mechanism by inducing desensitization. Specific allergen immunotherapy has been used for 1 century since 1911 and subcutaneous immunotherapy (SC...

background and objective: presence of hepatitis b core antibody (anti-hbc) in the absence of hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) and hepatitis b surface antibody (anti-hbs) is defined, as isolated anti-hbc. little is known about the clinical significance of the isolated anti-hbc in hepatitis b virus (hbv) infections. the aim of this study was to assess the significance of anti-hbc as the only m...